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Unicorn Margarita

When you say tequila, we say margarita. Take tequila’s favorite cocktail to the next level by using Unicorn Butterfly Pea Tequila, a special spirit made with butterfly pea flower that starts as a brilliant blue shade and changes colors as you add in your mixers.

5 minutes

1 cocktail

Beginner

Ingredients

  • 2 ounces Unicorn Butterfly Pea Tequila
  • ½ ounce triple sec*
  • 1 ounce lime juice (about 1 whole lime)>
  • Kosher salt for rim (optional)
  • Lime wedge (optional)

Instructions

Fill a shaker with ice. Add Unicorn Butterfly Pea Tequila, triple sec, then squeeze in lime juice — but don’t toss the lime. Shake for 10 seconds. If you’d like a salted rim, grab the juiced lime and rub it along the rim. Dip the rim into kosher salt. Pour the shaker contents into the glass. Garnish with a lime.

Unicorn Tequila margarita

When was the margarita invented?

While many claim to have crafted the maiden margarita, one of the more popular origin stories is about Carlos “Danny” Herrera. Herrera owned a restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico (Rancho La Gloria), and is credited with inventing the margarita in 1938. Give us a time machine so we can sip that original marg.